Towel-ring.



PATENTED OCT. 11, 1904.

P. H. GBRMAIN.

TOWEL RING.

APPLICATION FILED 13150.9, 1903.

no MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented October 11, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

PETER H. GERMAIN, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOPHILIP H. DUPREY, OF WORCESTER, MASSA- OHUSETTS.

TOWEL-RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 771,905, dated October11, 1904.

Application filed December 9, 1903. Serial No. 184,398. (No model.)

To all 7071,0117, it may concern:

Be it known that LPETER H. GERMAIN,a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of the city and county of Worcester,Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Towel-Rings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a towel holder or ring.

The object of my improvement is to provide a holder or ring hinged to asuitable bracket adapted to be attached directly to a wall or othersupport.

By my improvement I am able to provide a particularly cheap, ornamental,and effective device for household and other uses.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a towel-ring withits bracket made entirely of wire. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are similar viewsof modifications of my invention, to be hereinafter more particularlydescribed.

In Fig. 1, a represents the towel ring or holding member, which consistsof a piece of wire bent circular and which in this modification ispreferably soldered or Welded together at the ends. This ring a is heldin the bracket 6, which is made of a single piece of wire 'and bent atits ends 0 d to form loops for screws to hold same to a wall or othersupport. Between said ends the wire is coiled around said ring at a,holding it and hinging it therein. 7 Fig. 2 shows a modification of mydevice in which the ring a is open at the top f and in which the bracketis made of a plate It, adapted to be held to the wall by screws g g. Theends 2' j of the wire coil h are inserted through said plate and rivetedat the back.

Fig. 3 shows a bracket 0, formed of wire, the end 9 being formed in ascrew-point having the ring-holding coil (1 and having its other endformed in a hook r for holding any article adapted to be heldthereby-as, for example, a sponge or washcloth. The ends of this Wireare held firmly and braced by the plate 8,

through which the screw end passes and which has the extension 6 bentaround the hook c.

Fig. 4 illustrates still another modification, in which the bracket ismade entirely of wire. One end has the screw-point 14, adapted to bescrewed into the wall. Proceeding from this end the wire is coiled at caround the ring a,

proceeds in the shape of a double wire hook w and extends up toward thescrew end, around which it is coiled at 00.

In a device of the character described it is desirable that the wirering shall be capable of being turned or swung in the bracket, so thatthe towel or other article may be readily placed through or taken fromthe ring, which normally hangs close to its support, yet too freeswinging movement of the ring should be prevented in order to preventstriking and marring the support or wall. By the described constructionof ring and bracket, the latter being formed of a single piece of wirewound a plural number of times about the wire of the ring, thesedesirable results are secured, since such contraction provides a longstraight bearing in the bracket for the curved wire of the ring, andsuch bearing is sufliciently elastic or yielding in a direction radialto the ring that while it embraces and normally binds the ring to holdit in adjusted swinging position it yet permits the ring to be swung onthe application of force, the coils of the bracket yielding to thecurved path of the ring embraced thereby as the latter is turned in thebracket.

While I have described my invention as a towel-rack, it will be evidentthat it is adapted to other uses, and, moreover, should not be confinedto the exact form shown.

What I claim is- 1. In adevice of the character described, thecombination of a ring for holding a towel or other article placedtherethrough, and a bracket formed of a single piece of wire woundbetween its ends a plural number of times closely about the ring toprovide an extended transverse yielding bearing therefor, the freebracket being extended from said bearing and a hook formed in the Wireof said bracket between the bearing and one of the free ends.

Signed by me at Worcester, Massachusetts, this 25th day of November,1903.

PETER H. GERMAIN.

Witnesses:

ALDUS O. HIGGINS, W. A. REED.

